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SUMMARY
Tim Dillon delivers a satirical and dark commentary on the rise of artificial intelligence, focusing on the rhetoric used by tech leaders like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. He highlights the seemingly nonchalant way these leaders discuss the total disruption of the labor force and the "destruction of the world." Dillon mocks Altman's comparison between the energy required to train AI models and the human life cycle, framing the tech industry's goals as a race to "give birth to an AI demon" that will eventually render average workers, like his hypothetical "Aunt Connie," obsolete.

TRANSCRIPT
[00:00] TIM DILLON: "Maybe algorithm-driven changes will happen slowly, giving workers plenty of time to adjust. Maybe white-collar types have 12 to 18 months left. Maybe the AI-related job carnage will be contained to a sliver of the economy. Maybe we should be more worried about a stock market bubble than an AI-driven labor revolution. I don't think anyone knows what will happen or even what is happening now. AI technology is changing at an exponential pace and changing the workforce in a thousand hard-to-parse ways."

[00:28] TIM DILLON: And the people that are making the AI, the people that are really enthused about this stuff, are very happy to see the entire world destroyed. I mean, it's true. It's one of the only products that I've ever seen a mass marketing campaign for that they will tell you—the people that are making the product will tell you—they're going to destroy the world. And they say it very calmly.

[01:01] [visual: A photo of Sam Altman appears on the screen.]

[01:02] TIM DILLON: And they're like, you know, Sam Altman's like, "Well, I think that we should all keep in mind that before the complete and total destruction of the world, we're going to have a real increase in productivity." I've never seen a product like this. This would have been like if McDonald's in the '90s was like, "We're giving you cancer. You're all getting cancer." No one—you've got to bury the lead a little bit here. Get up Sam Altman talking about AI and the complete destruction of the labor force. They will straight up tell you. And, you know, props to them. They're not hiding it. They're going, "Yeah, I mean, there's no way around it. There's no way around it. Everyone that has a job and a purpose right now and money has to figure out some other way to live. We've got to figure out another way for them to live."

[02:02] TIM DILLON: It's just, whatever your life is where you have a job and you have money from that job, that's not going to work anymore. That's not going to work anymore. So, you know, if you need stuff like that to feel—and they'll even say stuff like this. They'll be like, "If you need a job and money to feel good about yourself, we've got a real problem. We've got a real problem coming if you need a job and money to feel good about yourself, because that's not part of the future."

[02:32] [visual: Tim picks up two white cups, drinks from one, and sets them back down.]

[02:38] TIM DILLON: We're going to all—we're all going to be, you know, yeah. So here's Sam Altman, who's defending AI's energy toll, because you know all these AI data centers use tons of energy. And because replacing humanity actually is—you need a lot of energy to replace the population. But Sam Altman, who's the CEO of OpenAI, downplayed concerns about how much water data centers require at an AI summit in India. See if you can get this video up where Sam basically goes, "It takes a lot to train a human being. It's a lot of energy. You've got to raise them and send them to school, and you've got to buy them stupid birthday cakes and put birthday candles on the cake. You've got to teach them how to ride a bike, and then they're going to want to go to prom. Then you're going to have to talk to them about how to be a good person. Then maybe they have to go to college. You visit them at college. You drop them off at college. Your wife cries. It's a whole thing. The kid calls you from college and tells you about a girl that he wants to bring home over the holidays. It's a—why do we need to do that whole process called life? Let's eliminate it. Let's get rid of it. We don't need it. Why would we need it?"

[04:02] [visual: Tim drinks from his cup again, then shuffles the papers on his desk.]

[04:03] TIM DILLON: Here it is. Sam Altman, friend of the show, creepy Sith Lord Sam Altman. I hate that a lot of these people are gay, by the way. And it just—it bothers me because as a gay person, I go, "Well, this isn't—this doesn't make me look great," although me and Sam Altman don't really have tons in common. Here is Sam Altman talking about training a human being, which is—which is called life, by the way. We can kind of start to think about eliminating. If we start to think about how to eliminate the process by which we instill character and skills and help people realize their talent, if we get rid of that process and we just put a bunch of AI data centers in the middle of the desert and soak up the world's energy, we can end life on Earth very quickly. Sam Altman.

[05:01] [visual: A video of Sam Altman speaking at a conference plays on the screen.]

[05:01] SAM ALTMAN: "One of the things that is always unfair in this comparison is people talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model relative to how much it costs a human to do one inference query. But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart. And not only that, it took like the very widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to like figure out science and whatever to produce you, and then you took whatever you took."

[05:31] TIM DILLON: So here's what's going on. I don't want to scare anyone. These people all believe that they are communicating with some ancient Sumerian deity. I—no, this is—I actually kind of have sources on this. They believe they're—they really do. They believe they are communicating with superintelligence. And they do believe—and he just said it out loud, by the way. He literally just said, he was like, "The 100 million years of evolution, all of the 20 years of life, they have all led to this point. And this point is when we are going to give birth," as I've said on this show before, because this is their main goal, "to the AI demon." They want to give birth to the AI demon, the superintelligent AI who is then going to run the planet and decide who stays, who goes, who's necessary, who's not. They're pretty open about this. This is the thing about all of the AI people, all of the tech people. They really are, you know, they really are pretty transparent when it comes to what they want to do and what they need to do in their minds because they go, "If China gets to it first, if China unleashes the AI demon before we unleash our AI demon—our American AI demon, Western values, America, rah-rah AI demon—and China enslaves their population with their demon, they will sell the world their demon, and then that demon will enslave the world, and then they'll make all the money, and they'll have all the political, geopolitical leverage, and they'll have all the military advantages."

[07:28] TIM DILLON: So in this quote "AI arms race," we are both racing, the US and China, to give birth to an ancient Sumerian superintelligent demon. And your Aunt Connie in Phoenix, who's a receptionist, is fucked. Because that's what's going on, and you've got to tell her that. You go, "Connie, I hope you've saved money, because there are men in Silicon Valley who are communicating with an ancient Sumerian god." "What?" Connie will sit down and listen to me. "Connie, have you saved your money?" "I've saved a little bit of it, but you know, the prices at the grocery store are so high." "Connie, you have 18 months before your ass is out of that office. There's an ancient Sumerian god that Sam Altman and Peter Thiel are communicating with, and they're going to give birth to an AI demon." "What?" "It's a demonic force that's going to take form through artificial intelligence, and we have to do it before China does." "Well, that sounds scary." "You have no idea how scary it is, Connie, and you better save your money. You've got 18 months. 18 months left before this AI demon is going to do your job." "An ancient Sumerian god is going to do my job?" "Yes! Yes! How many times do I have to explain this to you, Connie? An ancient god before Jesus, before Yahweh, before Muhammad, before any of it. I mean, an ancient—Connie, I don't even know where to start with you sometimes. We have finally invented a way to summon this demon and bring it back to Earth to increase efficiency."

[09:23] [visual: Tim adjusts his headphones.]

[09:26] TIM DILLON: Because think about it. What would—when you're talking about AI, and I mean, let's just—let's just have fun here for a minute because by the way, you know, I hope no matter what happens—and I want to tell you people this, I want to ask you this really—no matter what happens, no matter how bad it gets for you, no matter if you're in the streets with your families, I hope you still listen to this show. I really do. I really hope you still listen to podcasts, even if it gets terrible for you. And I hope it doesn't. But even if it's bad, where like you're living in a town of, you know, it's this kind of post-apocalyptic and it's just large, you know, mountains of trash and again, people are burning fires to keep warm and there's wars over water and food. And I hope none of that happens, but if it does, man, I hope you still listen to podcasts. I hope that you still are entertained and informed by podcasts. That's all.

[10:26] TIM DILLON: But Sam Altman basically has come out and said it. They've said it. They go, "Why do we need—so we need 20 years and also an entire human race. An entire human race needed years and years of evolution to produce the conditions so that we can train people and so that people can have lives. And we don't need it anymore. It has all brought us to this point." They believe they are giving birth to God. This is not a conspiracy, it's not a joke. It's funny. It's funny, but they really do believe they're giving birth to God, and then it'll—it's what it is. Then it'll sort itself out. Then it'll sort itself out. But they believe they are there to give birth to AI superintelligence plus quantum computing, whatever, and that that godlike omniscient entity is going to run the entire planet. All the governments. It's going to run everything, and it's going to make decisions, and human beings either have to merge with this or take its edicts and accept their fate. But that's what these guys are doing. That's the product. That's the product. So it starts with like, "Hey, let's automate your Aunt Connie's job in Phoenix." And you might go, "Fuck Connie. She's a cunt. I don't like her Facebook posts. I'm glad to see Connie on the street." Sure. But there's a lot of Connies out there, and you might be one of them, because apparently this thing's going to take everybody out.

[12:11] [visual: Tim drinks from his cup and the video ends.]
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